Crocidura zimmermanni
The Cretan shrew is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to the island of Crete, Greece.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CrociduraPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Soricidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Soricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 117 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 129 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
9 occurrences of Crocidura zimmermanni on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
9 occurrences- Pleistocene89%
- Holocene11%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Crocidura zimmermanni and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Crocidura zimmermanni and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Athene cretensis4 sites
- Corvus monedula4 sites
- Accipiter nisus3 sites
- Candiacervus devosi3 sites
- Columba3 sites
- Mus minotaurus3 sites
- Tyto alba3 sites
- Buteo buteo2 sites
- Candiacervus listeri2 sites
- Candiacervus rethymnensis2 sites
- Candiacervus reumeri2 sites
- Candiacervus ropalophorus2 sites
- Columba palumbus2 sites
- Corvus2 sites
- Falco tinnunculus2 sites
- Kritimys catreus2 sites
- Scolopax rusticola2 sites
- Accipiter gentilis1 site
- Aegolius funereus1 site
- Aegypius monachus1 site
- Apus melba1 site
- Aquila chrysaetos1 site
- Aquila chrysaetos simurgh1 site
- Asio flammeus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Crocidura zimmermanni, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- Notes on the Soricidae (Insectivora, Mammalia) from Crete. I. The Pleistocene species Crocidura zimmermanni8
- The endemic Pleistocene murids of Crete I-II1
Each of the 9 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Crocidura zimmermanni
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Chermundy
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Crocidura zimmermanni was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCrocidura through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wettstein 1953)